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Digital Marketing Costs: How to Save Money While Maintaining Results

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By David Tomas, on 19 August 2020

A popular saying in the marketing world is that half of what is invested in advertising is wasted... but the problem is that we don't know which half.

In times of crisis, optimizing digital marketing costs becomes more necessary than ever. Ideally, what we are looking to do is to maintain the same results while reducing expenses. How can we achieve this feat? We'll share some of our best tips!

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Digital Marketing Costs: How to Save Money While Maintaining Results


7 Tips To Optimize Your Digital Marketing Costs


1. Create a Buyer Persona

To maintain marketing results while cutting costs, it is essential that every action is well-targeted.

Creating a buyer persona is essential for any marketing campaign, but in times of hardships, it is even more important to keep it updated and front of mind. That is why we recommend conducting keyword research regularly and keep asking your potential audience their opinion. Be sure you understand how they feel about your content, whether or not it is relevant to them or if they enjoy it.



2. Focus On Content Marketing

Content marketing generates more leads than traditional marketing at a lower cost, and also helps to position your brand as an authority in your sector.

In times of crisis, we should never cut back on the quality and quantity of content, although we can consider alternatives that are easier to produce, such as live video. Content creation like blog articles, social media posts, and live social media videos, while time-consuming, is free in nature. If you have the ability and the manpower to shift your efforts to the more organic content, this is a great way to continue your marketing efforts by cutting digital marketing costs.


3. Measure Your Results

When budgets are tight, you must ensure that every action you’re taking is granting some sort of result. If a strategy isn’t yielding results, it's time to cut it out.

Measuring your results is the only way to actively optimize your marketing investment. Decide what your key metrics are and never lose sight of them: only then will you know what actions are worth investing in and what you can eliminate to reduce marketing costs.


4. Plan Your Funnel Strategy

If you need to reinforce short-term results to get out of a rut, it is a good idea to see how the marketing investment is being distributed in the different stages of the conversion funnel. In these circumstances it may be a good idea to temporarily focus resources on the last stages of the funnel, that is, as these users are closest to making a purchase. Once you’ve earned a bit more, you can brand out to the different phases again.


Digital Marketing Costs: How to Save Money While Maintaining Results


5. Remarketing

Remarketing or retargeting consists of reconnecting with users who have already shown an interest in your brand. As this is a small audience, the costs are lower, but the possibilities of achieving conversions are higher. Therefore, it is a very strong tactic when we want to reduce marketing costs while maintaining the same results.


6. Automate Your Processes

Marketing automation is a very simple way to free up time and resources for other tasks, which ends up leading to better budget optimization. In addition, you do not need a large investment to start automating, as there are many low-cost tools on the market that can help us.

HubSpot offers a free CRM that you can use to manage many sales activities. This will free up time to focus on other marketing tasks while spending more sales time on the BOFU prospects.


7. Broaden Your Horizons To Take Advantage Of New Opportunities

Every crisis implies a change, and every change brings with it new market gaps and opportunities that we can take advantage of.

In difficult times, we have to be aware of how we can continue to be useful and adapt to new times. We have to be willing to analyze the situation continuously and respond quickly. Marketing during a crisis, whether it's a pandemic, natural disaster, or a smaller-scale crisis, is possible with a little extra ingenuity and hard work.


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David Tomas

CEO y cofundador de Cyberclick. Cuenta con más de 20 años de experiencia en el mundo online. Es ingeniero y cursó un programa de Entrepreneurship en MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. En 2012 fue nombrado uno de los 20 emprendedores más influyentes en España, menores de 40 años, según la Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 e IESE. Autor de "La empresa más feliz del mundo" y "Diario de un Millennial".

CEO and co-founder of Cyberclick. David Tomas has more than 20 years of experience in the online world. He is an engineer and completed an Entrepreneurship program at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012 he was named one of the 20 most influential entrepreneurs in Spain, under the age of 40, according to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 and IESE. Author of "The Happiest Company in the World" and "Diary of a Millennial".